The Resource Get Shorty, Elmore Leonard
Get Shorty, Elmore Leonard
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The item Get Shorty, Elmore Leonard represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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The item Get Shorty, Elmore Leonard represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- Get Shorty follows the fortunes of Chili Palmer, a Miami loan shark with a talent for making a 'slow pay' come across. His pursuit of a mark who's behind in his payments takes him first to Las Vegas, then to Hollywood and horror-film producer Harry Zimm. It seems that Harry has gambled away $200,000 earmarked for his next production, and his investors, who run a limo-and-drugs service for the Hollywood crowd, will kill to know where their money is.But in the land of make-believe Chili suddenly finds himself forming an uneasy partnership with Harry - in between evaluating screenplays, taking meetings with studio execs, and pitching a movie idea of his own. Who would have thought that successful hood would have the right job skills to make it big in Hollywood? Now all Chili has to do to reap the rewards is stay one step ahead of a trigger-happy investor who wants him removed from the scenario... permanently
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 275 pages
- Note
-
- TV tie-in
- Originally published: Delacorte Press, 1990
- Isbn
- 9781474605397
- Label
- Get Shorty
- Title
- Get Shorty
- Statement of responsibility
- Elmore Leonard
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Get Shorty follows the fortunes of Chili Palmer, a Miami loan shark with a talent for making a 'slow pay' come across. His pursuit of a mark who's behind in his payments takes him first to Las Vegas, then to Hollywood and horror-film producer Harry Zimm. It seems that Harry has gambled away $200,000 earmarked for his next production, and his investors, who run a limo-and-drugs service for the Hollywood crowd, will kill to know where their money is.But in the land of make-believe Chili suddenly finds himself forming an uneasy partnership with Harry - in between evaluating screenplays, taking meetings with studio execs, and pitching a movie idea of his own. Who would have thought that successful hood would have the right job skills to make it big in Hollywood? Now all Chili has to do to reap the rewards is stay one step ahead of a trigger-happy investor who wants him removed from the scenario... permanently
- Cataloging source
- YDXCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1925-2013
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Leonard, Elmore
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Motion picture producers and directors
- Motion picture industry
- Mafia
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Get Shorty, Elmore Leonard
- Note
-
- TV tie-in
- Originally published: Delacorte Press, 1990
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000060951217
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- 275 pages
- Isbn
- 9781474605397
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)951032738
- Label
- Get Shorty, Elmore Leonard
- Note
-
- TV tie-in
- Originally published: Delacorte Press, 1990
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000060951217
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- 275 pages
- Isbn
- 9781474605397
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)951032738
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